On This Day — February 12
4460 noted people were born and 2153 died on February 12 in our archive, including Edward Forbes, Georges Lochak and John Edward Gray.
Lists people with a recorded full birth or death date; people known only by year are not included.
Born on February 12
Edward Forbes
1815 – 1854
Georges Lochak
1930 – 2021
John Edward Gray
1800 – 1875
Louis Renault
1877 – 1944
Michael A. Hill
b. 1980
Pierre Louis Dulong
1785 – 1838
Roger Jean Heim
1900 – 1979
William Berryman Scott
1858 – 1947
William Morris Davis
1850 – 1934
A. Piatt Andrew
1873 – 1936
Aleksandr Rumyantsev
b. 1947
Anne Osborn Krueger
b. 1934
Arlen Specter
1930 – 2012
Christophe Jaffrelot
b. 1964
Chu Ching-wu
b. 1941
Clara Campoamor
1888 – 1972
David K. E. Bruce
1898 – 1977
David Marks
b. 1945
Dennis Sullivan
b. 1941
Diane Coyle
b. 1961
Dorota Segda
b. 1966
Emil Lenz
1804 – 1865
Fang Lizhi
1936 – 2012
George Elliott Clarke
b. 1960
Gijsbert van Tienhoven
1841 – 1914
Gil Cisneros
b. 1971
Gilbert Grandval
1904 – 1981
Ineta Ziemele
b. 1970
Ion Stoica
b. 1965
Jaakko Jonkka
1953 – 2022
Jack King
1931 – 2015
James Dwight Dana
1813 – 1895
John James Duncan
1845 – 1913
Jorge Basadre
1903 – 1980
Joseph Jordania
b. 1954
Julian Seymour Schwinger
1918 – 1994
Kanya King
1969 – 2026
Karl A. Lamers
b. 1951
Kathleen Antonelli
1921 – 2006
Leon Kass
b. 1939
Lev Artsimovich
1909 – 1973
Marcel Minnaert
1893 – 1970
Marek Magierowski
b. 1971
Margaret Warner
b. 1950
Natalia Majluf
b. 1967
Richard Belcredi
1823 – 1902
Roberto Navigli
b. 1978
Russell L. Ackoff
1919 – 2009
Sari Nusseibeh
b. 1949
Seigō Nakano
1886 – 1943
Sir Howard Davies
b. 1951
Thilo Sarrazin
b. 1945
Thressa Stadtman
1920 – 2016
William Howley
1766 – 1848
Abd al-Aziz Jarad
b. 1954
Abdullah bin Khalifa Al Busaidi
1910 – 1963
Ad Melkert
b. 1956
Adelina Kondrátieva
1917 – 2012
Akira Kazami
1886 – 1961
Albert Gould
1847 – 1936
Alden Partridge
1785 – 1854
Alejandro Galvis Galvis
1891 – 1981
Alex Carlile, Baron Carlile of Berriew
b. 1948
Alison Munro
1914 – 2008
Andrew Goodpaster
1915 – 2005
Andrey Bushev
b. 1966
Arne Haukvik
1926 – 2002
Attila Nagy
1933 – 1992
Auguste Perret
1874 – 1954
Berend Jan Udink
1926 – 2016
Boris Reznik
1940 – 2018
Boris Ulianich
1925 – 2023
Brett Kavanaugh
b. 1965
Břetislav Bakala
1897 – 1958
Caspar Bartholin the Elder
1585 – 1629
Charles Lécrivain
1860 – 1942
Charles Van Doren
1926 – 2019
Charles-Wilfrid de Bériot
1833 – 1914
Connie Morella
b. 1931
Costa-Gavras
b. 1933
Count Karl Sigmund von Hohenwart
1824 – 1899
Curley Byrd
1889 – 1970
David B. Sentelle
b. 1943
David D. Friedman
b. 1945
David Graeber
1961 – 2020
Dean James Bergeron
b. 1969
Edmond Warre
1837 – 1920
Eduard von Böhm-Ermolli
1856 – 1941
Edward Burtenshaw Sugden
1781 – 1875
Edward Hanson
1889 – 1959
Ehud Barak
b. 1942
Elizur Wright
1804 – 1885
Enrico Bompiani
1889 – 1975
Enrique Anderson Imbert
1910 – 2000
Esioff-Léon Patenaude
1875 – 1963
Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk
1851 – 1914
Eugène Lefèvre-Pontalis
1862 – 1923
Evelyn Hu-DeHart
b. 1947
Fakhruddin G. Ebrahim
1928 – 2020
Fedor Samokhin
1918 – 1992
Ferenc Cserháti
1947 – 2023
Francis Ingram-Seymour-Conway, 2nd Marquess of Hertford
1743 – 1822
Francis Omondi Ogolla
1962 – 2024
Franco Zeffirelli
1923 – 2019
Fred Albert Shannon
1893 – 1963
Gail Skofronick Jackson
1963 – 2021
Galiya Izmaylova
1923 – 2010
Gerhard Rühm
b. 1930
Gero Storjohann
1958 – 2023
Giuliana Luigia Evelina Mameli Calvino
1886 – 1978
Hank Brown
b. 1940
Hanna Neumann
1914 – 1971
Hendrik Nienhuis
1790 – 1862
Henry Dutton
1796 – 1869
Hermann Witsius
1636 – 1708
Horst Brünner
1929 – 2008
Hrant Matevosyan
1935 – 2002
Humphrey O'Leary
1886 – 1953
Ida Helen Ogilvie
1874 – 1963
Imam Mustafayev
1910 – 1997
Isaac Bersuker
b. 1928
Ivan Borgman
1849 – 1914
Jack So
b. 1945
Jacques Dumoulin
1898 – 1988
Jacques Herbrand
1908 – 1931
Jean-Louis Mandel
b. 1946
Johan Laidoner
1884 – 1953
Johann Karl Heinrich Wuttke
1818 – 1876
John Alexander Fraser
1896 – 1943
John Fieldhouse, Baron Fieldhouse
1928 – 1992
John J. Donovan
b. 1942
John William Lieb
1860 – 1929
Jolanta Janek
b. 1963
Juan Esteban Montero
1879 – 1948
Julius Streicher
1885 – 1946
Kang Kum-sil
b. 1957
Kazbek Taysaev
b. 1967
Ken Harada
1919 – 1997
Kwaku Kwarteng
b. 1969
Laila Akhmetova
b. 1954
Lam Lay Yong
b. 1936
Lamberto V. Avellana
1915 – 1991
Laure de La Raudière
b. 1965
Laurence D. Barron
b. 1944
Lee Waters
b. 1976
Leena Luhtanen
b. 1941
Lev Naumov
1925 – 2005
Lintorn Simmons
1821 – 1903
Lorne Greene
1915 – 1987
Magnus Cormack
1906 – 1994
Mario Toral
b. 1934
Mel Powell
1923 – 1998
Mercedes de la Garza Camino
b. 1939
Michael Kpakala Francis
1936 – 2013
Militsa Nechkina
1899 – 1985
Miron Polyakin
1895 – 1941
Nazzareno Marconi
b. 1958
Nicholas Soames
b. 1948
Nils Hermann Nilsson-Ehle
1873 – 1949
Norma Major
b. 1942
Nurhan Atasoy
b. 1934
Odysseas Angelis
1912 – 1987
Okada Saburosuke
1869 – 1939
Olaus Verelius
1618 – 1682
Omar Bradley
1893 – 1981
Otto Pettersson
1848 – 1941
Paata Burchuladze
b. 1955
Paul Chack
1876 – 1945
Peter Abbott
1942 – 2015
Peter Schoomaker
b. 1946
Phil Zimmermann
b. 1954
Philip, Prince of Eulenburg
1847 – 1921
Prabhat Jha
b. 1965
Princess Astrid, Mrs. Ferner
1932 – 2026
Pyotr Podgorodetsky
b. 1957
Raizo Matsuno
1917 – 2006
Raymond Kurzweil
b. 1948
Reiner Salzer
b. 1942
Renato Balduzzi
b. 1955
Robert Boothby, Baron Boothby
1900 – 1986
Robert P. Patterson
1891 – 1952
Robert Q. Marston
1923 – 1999
Roderich Stintzing
1854 – 1933
Roger Berliner
b. 1951
Roger J. Traynor
1900 – 1983
Roland Winston
1936 – 2025
Roman Rosen
1847 – 1921
Roy Harris
1898 – 1979
Rudolf Jakob Camerarius
1665 – 1721
Sam Kazemian
b. 1993
Sergei Ivanovich Furgal
b. 1970
Silver Meikar
b. 1978
Stefan Stambolov
1854 – 1895
Stepan Kutorga
1805 – 1861
Sugata Mitra
b. 1952
Sven Koenig
b. 1964
Taijun Takeda
1912 – 1976
Takeo Nishioka
1936 – 2011
Terje Sagvolden
1945 – 2011
Theodor Burghele
1905 – 1977
… and 4,260 more
Died on February 12
Douglas Hartree
1897 – 1958
Einar Hille
1894 – 1980
Jules Jamin
1818 – 1886
Nikolai Ivanovich Lobachevsky
1792 – 1856
Robert Tigerstedt
1853 – 1923
Aleksandar Teodorov-Balan
1859 – 1959
Ambroise Thomas
1811 – 1896
Boris Chirikov
1928 – 2008
C. R. Krishnaswamy Rao Sahib
1927 – 2013
Charles Critchfield
1910 – 1994
David John Gordon
1865 – 1946
Frederick Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, 1st Marquess of Dufferin and Ava
1826 – 1902
Gardner Ackley
1915 – 1998
Hans Vliegenthart
1936 – 2026
John Palmer, 4th Earl of Selborne
1940 – 2021
Joseph Pérès
1890 – 1962
Karl Vaino
1923 – 2022
Kálmán Laki
1909 – 1983
Kōtarō Honda
1870 – 1954
Lauri Kivekäs
1903 – 1998
Lazzaro Spallanzani
1729 – 1799
Marcel Cachin
1869 – 1958
Mori Arinori
1847 – 1889
Moses Gomberg
1866 – 1947
Oliver Rackham
1939 – 2015
Oscar Camilión
1930 – 2016
Richard Edmonds Luyt
1915 – 1994
Richard Strachey
1817 – 1908
Sami Droubi
1921 – 1976
Søren Peter Lauritz Sørensen
1868 – 1939
Ursula B. Marvin
1921 – 2018
Walter S. Huxford
1892 – 1958
Xesús Alonso Montero
1928 – 2026
Alfred Chen
1937 – 2026
Algernon Percy, 4th Duke of Northumberland
1792 – 1865
Anna Marguerite McCann
1933 – 2017
Astley Cooper
1768 – 1841
Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape
1888 – 1981
Carl Froelich
1875 – 1953
Charles Le Goffic
1863 – 1932
Chuck Mawhinney
1949 – 2024
Clarence J. Shearn
1869 – 1953
Claude Jourdan
1803 – 1873
Concetto Marchesi
1878 – 1957
Dziga Vertov
1895 – 1954
Eduard Sandifort
1742 – 1814
Edward Bligh, 5th Earl of Darnley
1795 – 1835
Edward Turner
1798 – 1837
Ella Cara Deloria
1889 – 1971
Ezriel Carlebach
1908 – 1956
Georges Dumas
1866 – 1946
Giuseppe Galasso
1929 – 2018
Hal B. Jennings
1915 – 2008
Hal Colebatch
1872 – 1953
Hans von Bülow
1830 – 1894
Henk Bos
1940 – 2024
Hennadii Udovenko
1931 – 2013
Henri Duparc
1848 – 1933
Henrik Lundh
1895 – 1985
Henry Duncan
1774 – 1846
Henry Francis Pelham
1846 – 1907
Herman Dooyeweerd
1894 – 1977
Hippolyte Langlois
1839 – 1912
Howard Zimmerman
1926 – 2012
Hubert Boulard
1971 – 2020
Iwo Gall
1890 – 1959
Jabez Lamar Monroe Curry
1825 – 1903
Jacques Dubois
1933 – 2026
Jalmari Jaakkola
1885 – 1964
Jay Norwood Darling
1876 – 1962
Jerzy Skolimowski
1907 – 1985
Johan P. Lunde
1866 – 1938
Johannes van den Driesche
1550 – 1616
John Arthur Thomson
1861 – 1933
José Pedro Braga
1871 – 1944
Józef Świeżyński
1868 – 1948
Kai Donner
1888 – 1935
Karl E. Peters
1939 – 2025
Kurt Zadek Lewin
1890 – 1947
Lambertus Nicodemus Palar
1900 – 1981
Louis Everett Burnham
1915 – 1960
Lyon Gardiner Tyler
1853 – 1935
Léon Goossens
1897 – 1988
Maria Caspar-Filser
1878 – 1968
Marie Kruse
1842 – 1923
Marinus van der Goes van Naters
1900 – 2005
Mark W. Ellingson
1904 – 1993
Max von Bonsdorff
1882 – 1967
Mildmay Fane, 2nd Earl of Westmorland
1602 – 1666
Mireille Delmas-Marty
1941 – 2022
Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat
1931 – 2015
Nikolay Firyubin
1908 – 1983
Paul Frederick Zweifel
1929 – 2017
Pavel Unterberger
1842 – 1921
Pietro Grocco
1856 – 1916
Rahul Bajaj
1938 – 2022
Ralf Steudel
1937 – 2021
Richard Dedekind
1831 – 1916
Richmond K. Turner
1885 – 1961
Robert Ferdinand Wagner Jr.
1910 – 1991
Robert Frederick Froehlke
1922 – 2016
Roger M. Spanswick
1939 – 2014
Ryōtarō Shiba
1923 – 1996
Sattam bin Abdul-Aziz Al Saud
1941 – 2013
Shang Fa Yang
1932 – 2007
Shimoyama Jun'ichirō
1853 – 1912
Simon Mawer
1948 – 2025
Sir Harry Verney, 2nd Baronet
1801 – 1894
Stanislao Lista
1824 – 1908
Stanley Alexander de Smith
1922 – 1974
Stepan Krasheninnikov
1711 – 1755
Tengku Mahmood Mahyideen
1908 – 1954
Thomas Sterry Hunt
1826 – 1892
Thomas White
1492 – 1567
Vadim Abdrashitov
1945 – 2023
Vittorio Bachelet
1926 – 1980
Wilhelm Röpke
1899 – 1966
William G. Batchelder
1942 – 2022
William Robertson
1860 – 1933
A. P. Tugwell
1889 – 1976
Aadu Lüüs
1878 – 1967
Adolf Fredrik of Sweden
1710 – 1771
Agostino Steffani
1654 – 1728
Agustín de Spínola Basadone
1597 – 1649
Ahmad Madani
1928 – 2006
Al Jarreau
1940 – 2017
Alejandro Utrilla
1889 – 1963
Alexander B. Morrison
1930 – 2018
Alexander S. Webb
1835 – 1911
Alexandra Skoglund
1862 – 1938
Alexandre Mouton
1804 – 1885
Alison Des Forges
1942 – 2009
Alphonse-Osias Gagnon
1860 – 1941
Amazonino Mendes
1939 – 2023
Anar Zhailganova
1969 – 2024
Andrea Barbato
1934 – 1996
Andreas Alföldi
1895 – 1981
André Pavlovsky
1891 – 1961
Anna-Lisa Thomson
1905 – 1952
Anthony Low
1927 – 2015
Antoni Vadell Ferrer
1972 – 2022
Antonio Labriola
1843 – 1904
Archduke Ernest of Austria
1553 – 1595
Arkady Onishchik
1933 – 2019
Armar Lowry-Corry, 5th Earl Belmore
1870 – 1948
Arne Treholt
1942 – 2023
Arpiar Arpiarian
1851 – 1908
Arthur Elliot
1846 – 1923
Arthur Louis Arthurovic de Jaczewski
1863 – 1932
Arthur Roderick Collar
1908 – 1986
August Buchner
1591 – 1661
Auguste Escoffier
1846 – 1935
Augustus Jessopp
1823 – 1914
Aurore Gagnon
1909 – 1920
Avraham Stern
1907 – 1942
Behçet Gücer
1890 – 1952
Benon Biraaro
1958 – 2020
Bernard Meninsky
1891 – 1950
Betty Garrett
1919 – 2011
Beverly Eckert
1951 – 2009
Carl Lutz
1895 – 1975
Carlo Wagner
1953 – 2021
Charles Gwynn
1870 – 1963
Charles H. Long
1926 – 2020
Charles M. Schulz
1922 – 2000
Charles Voysey
1857 – 1941
Christie Blatchford
1951 – 2020
Christopher Dorner
1979 – 2013
Constant Pierre
1855 – 1918
Count Manfred von Clary-Aldringen
1852 – 1928
Darius N. Couch
1822 – 1897
David Carr
1956 – 2015
David Groh
1939 – 2008
David Walton
1945 – 2019
Denis Wick
1931 – 2025
Diodorus Kamala
1968 – 2024
Dirk Coster
1889 – 1950
Dmytro Klyachkivsky
1911 – 1945
Dominic Bruce
1915 – 2000
Dorothy Stang
1931 – 2005
Duncan K. McRae
1820 – 1888
Edward Dannreuther
1844 – 1905
Edward James Roye
1815 – 1872
Egon Schweidler
1873 – 1948
Eizi Matuda
1894 – 1978
Elmira Abasova
1932 – 2009
Eric Alfred Knudsen
1872 – 1957
Erica-Irene Daes
1925 – 2017
Erling Enger
1899 – 1990
Eugene Esmonde
1909 – 1942
Eustace St Clair Hill
1873 – 1953
Ferdinand Dutert
1845 – 1906
Foster LaHue
1918 – 1996
France Bloch-Sérazin
1913 – 1943
Francesco Ferrara
1767 – 1850
Francis Morris
1862 – 1947
Francis Pettit Smith
1808 – 1874
Francis Pierre
1931 – 2013
Francisco de Borja Álvarez de Toledo, 16th Duke of Medina Sidonia
1763 – 1821
Frank D. Scott
1878 – 1951
… and 1,953 more